Can you buy TOO big a Flatscreen TV?

[PacificOcean]

Some HD shows do look great; Strictly Come Dancing looked AMAZING and so do a lot of BBC shows but Ive found Stargate Atlantis and some other shows make close up faces and wide shot landscapes look almost too highlighted?

It only tends to happen on some US shows.

Everything on BBC HD is proper filmed in HD so will be fantastic.

Sky One HD and Channel 4 HD are just simulcast channels and so show programes that wern't filmed in HD initally but "upscale" them, so they are not true HD programes. Hence not being as good as BBC HD.

If that makes any sense?

 

[The Groke]

a 46" LCD is just about perfect IMO; games, movies and shows on DVD being the priority for me - I don't really watch much telly.

Will be upgrading the 32" this year.

 

[bluestreak]

I agree with eme actually, i think tvs can be too big, too overpowering... also, has anyone had the misfortune to watch porn on a projector or something? it's fucking awful having all this hardcore massive on the wall...

 

[Melinda]

Everything on BBC HD is proper filmed in HD so will be fantastic.

Sky One HD and Channel 4 HD are just simulcast channels and so show programes that wern't filmed in HD initally but "upscale" them, so they are not true HD programes. Hence not being as good as BBC HD.

If that makes any sense?

Ah! So there is a difference. Cheers Poppet!

 

[EastEnder]

My perfect TV would entirely fill the largest living room wall. With the other 3 walls being entirely filled with the surround sound speakers.

 

[Echo Base]

I need a new telly but im a bit worried about dropping up to £1k on one and having the picture look as bad as they do in Currys, Comet etc.
I have SD Sky and a 28" CRT Toshiba and the picture is absolutely perfect. Im not shelling out for an HD box and an HD subscription. Tellys in shops usually run an HD or blueray signal and they look great but im scared they wont look so good with my SD SKy and when I ask the guys in the shop to show me an SD picture then the drop in quality from HD and from my TV is very noticeable.

 

[Reno]

The other thing that occurs to me is that as with all electrical technology, the development of new models comes so quickly that having spent a lot of money on a large screen set, it will be out of date when some new feature is brought out in the next six months that leaves you wanting to upgrade again.

3D television is still a while off. You should be ok for at least the next decade or so.

 

[TopCat]

My ex's parents have a 60 inch flat screen and it looks shit.

My son loves it.

 

[Reno]

My ex's parents have a 60 inch flat screen and it looks shit.

My son loves it.

The reason why it looks shit could be all sorts of things not to do with the TV itself. Many people don't bother setting their telly properly, be it aspect ration, contrast, input, etc. A non-HD Sky, Cable or Freeview signal won't look amazing, though it should be acceptable.

 

[hendo]

Girls on the whole see huge screens as divorce material. They just don't get the beauty of a 40 inch Pioneer Plasma.

I've been thinking of 'recycling' my 32 inch Sony CRT and stepping up to something flatter and sightly larger, but I'm struck by how this could be a waste of money at the moment because there's no cheap source of HD programming and I don't have a blu ray player.

TV seems in a total revolution and I'd hate to spend a grand for a dated turkey two years hence. Don't reckon I'm on my own on this.

 

[yield]

Conspicuous consumption anyone?

On a more technical note has plasma and lcd really surpassed crt technology?

 

[stdPikachu]

TV seems in a total revolution and I'd hate to spend a grand for a dated turkey two years hence. Don't reckon I'm on my own on this.

A revolution? As in "the same old pporly written LCD (ha! You see what I did there?) bollocks, only on a spiffier looking screen? Colour me unimpressed... :/

 

[alsoknownas]

I need a new telly but im a bit worried about dropping up to £1k on one and having the picture look as bad as they do in Currys, Comet etc.
I have SD Sky and a 28" CRT Toshiba and the picture is absolutely perfect. Im not shelling out for an HD box and an HD subscription. Tellys in shops usually run an HD or blueray signal and they look great but im scared they wont look so good with my SD SKy and when I ask the guys in the shop to show me an SD picture then the drop in quality from HD and from my TV is very noticeable.

You are right to be worried. All of your concerns in this regard are correct.

 

[alsoknownas]

On a more technical note has plasma and lcd really surpassed crt technology?

In a word, no.
However, they are different technologies and plasma and lcd do offer some advantages, e.g.-

Size - there is a limit to how large a crt screen can be.
Flatscreen - obviously crt's take up more space.
High Definition - most crt's are standard-def only (with a tiny few exceptions).

But in almost all areas of picture quality (especially black tones) crt still wins quite easily. If you put a standard-def picture on any range of high-street flatscreens versus a standard crt, the crt would win every time.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

We've got a 37" HD tv and it looks pretty good. I don't think I'd want anything bigger in the front room.